Whitley v. River's Bend Health Care

Abele, Judge.

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a Lawrence County Common Pleas Court summary judgment in favor of River’s Bend Health Care (“River’s Bend”), defendant below and appellee herein, on claims brought against it by Marian C. Whitley and Patricia A. Mazzella, individually and as co-administrators of the estate of Ethel V. Christian, plaintiffs below and appellants herein. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.1

{¶ 2} Appellant assigns the following errors for -review:

FIRST ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR:

Because the substitution of an estate for a deceased party plaintiff relates back to the filing of…